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Saturday, September 10, 1927
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The Headlines
TRUCK STRIKE ENDS; $5 A WEEK PAY RISE; Settlement Is Reached When Drivers Forego Their Demand for an Eight-Hour Day. GOOD-WILL MARKS MEETING Oral Compact Results, With Ratification by the Unions Expected Today. TRUCK STRIKE ENDS; $5 A WEEK PAY RISE
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Compton (1892)
- Pope Julius III (1487)
- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839)
- Georges Bataille (1897)
- Henry Purcell (1659)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
36,063 days ago
(98 years, 293 days)